Bangladesh vs Jamaica: Drivers of deforestation

Bangladesh
53.17 hectares
in 2023
Jamaica
50.35 hectares
in 2023
Bangladesh rank
96th
Jamaica rank
97th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Bangladesh
  • Jamaica
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How they compare

Bangladesh currently reports 53.17 hectares against 50.35 hectares in Jamaica, a difference of 2.82 hectares.

That makes Bangladesh's figure about 1.1 times Jamaica's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 23 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Bangladesh ahead.

Bangladesh ranks 96th and Jamaica ranks 97th of 166 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Drivers of deforestation
Unit
hectares
Source
Singh et al. (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
166 places, 2,829 data points, 2001–2023
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Estimates of commodity-driven deforestation, measured in hectares per year. This includes deforestation caused by the production of agricultural products and forestry, which account for approximately 90% of the world's deforestation.